Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Aging category:
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Ambition category:
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Beginning category:
A well begun is half ended. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Change category:
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Choices category:
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Commerce category:
Man, an animal that makes bargains. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Courage category:
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Fear category:
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Happiness category:
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Knowledge category:
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Mysteries category:
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Reality category:
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Suffering category:
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Teaching category:
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
Arthur Christopher Benson - From the Truth category:
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. (Arthur Christopher Benson)
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